Dragon Age News Thread

So you go from working with these people who in the previous game franchise could literally have an idea on Monday, have a workable prototype on Wednesday, and have it more or less functioning in the game on Friday. On their old engine. They could get stuff up on its feet—is this cool? does it work? OK yes, let’s polish it, go with that.

To suddenly they’re working with an engine that took, no shit, 2-4 months to get a working prototype up on its feet and into the game. So now, when the iteration process is slowed to such a crawl, you don’t have a choice to do anything other than polish the turds of your original first ideas, because by the time you have something up on its feet there’s no time to tweak it, and implement it. Your idea that you had 4 months ago or 2 months ago, it’s now so late in the development process, you have to run with it and make [it] work.